Candidate John Hinz

My involvement with the Angeles Chapter began when I took the Basic Mountaineering Training Course. I returned as an assistant leader, and later was elected Long Beach Area Chair. When the Mountaineering Training Committee went dormant, I was a founding member of the Wilderness Training Committee as the Long Beach Area Chair.

I began, and continue, leading the weekly conditioning hikes on Signal Hill and was eventually elected to the Long Beach Group's Executive Committee, where I now serve as Vice-Chair. I previously served as Outings Chair, and continue as Outings Vice-Chair. I am currently the Conservation Chair and the Alternate Representative to the Chapter Executive Committee.

I represent the Long Beach Group at the Chapter Conservation Committee, and am the Conservation Liaison for the Outings Management Committee. I am a WTC Group Leader (Group 2 - LB/SB), and had been the Assistant Group Leader for many years. I continue to lead O-, I-, and M-level trips for WTC and Long Beach.

I was one of the voices clamoring for change which led to the creation of the Outings Review Task Force. Then I participated in the reorganizational meetings and assisted in writing the rules under which the Outings Management Committee now operates.

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